Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crime, costume, melodrama, sex, childbearing, social climbing, wisecracking. Whiskey is tossed off by the decanter, money flung away by the bucketful, gangsters invade the marble halls, curtains bang down with gunfire. At the end, the younger members of the family, facing the world of 1941, rebel in "disgust, mistily resolved to serve America rather than swindle...
...middle of the year. He once told me that the responsibility of replacing a locally famous figure so over-awed him that for 25 years afterwards he had a recurrent dream: he dreamt that as he began to talk to his class, the students, with a look of disgust, got up one by one and in five minutes emptied the room. Perhaps the anxiety that lay behind this dream might account for the abruptness and at times even harshness, of Mr. Kittredge's class room manner; beneath his sometimes forbidding exterior he was a much shyer man than one would...
...have been following with a good deal of interest, not to say disgust, the hullabaloo raised over the action of Lieut. General Ben Lear, in disciplining a detachment under his command, for conduct unbecoming to men wearing the uniform of the U.S. Army (TIME, July...
...others who have enjoyed the hospitality of the monks can feel nothing but disgust for a writer who anonymously criticizes a body of men whose guest he has been, and I am amazed that you should have published so irresponsible and sensational a report...
...when the U.S. stood on the threshold of world trade and world power, Manhattan's National City Bank opened its first foreign branch in Buenos Aires. It was forced to staff the new bank with Englishmen, because-to the disgust of City Bank president, the late Frank Arthur Vanderlip-few U.S. citizens with South American know-how were available. Sensing the U.S.'s new world role, Banker Vanderlip began giving tough 12-to-18-month courses in foreign economics, languages, business customs to college graduates, for jobs in the City Bank's foreign service...